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Apple is in Talks to Acquire Microsoft Kinect Maker ‘PrimeSense’ for $280M

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Get ready folks to experience new 3D Apple TV interface in your living room soon. Apple is reportedly in talks to buy the specialist motion controller company PrimeSense. Some recent reports by an...

Hulu Sale is still ON

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The sale for Hulu LLC is still not closed. Our earlier report today states that owners of Hulu called off its sale as they inject $750 million cash in the video-streaming service provider. But...

AT&T to Acquire Leap Wireless for $15 Per Share in Cash

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It ended in a $15 per share agreement. That amounts to a net total amount worth $1.19 billion. AT&T bought off Leap Wireless. And Leap’s 5 million subscribers are now part of AT&T’s assets....

Microsoft Reportedly Tried to Buy Zynga Before Mattrick Became CEO

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Don Mattrick joined Zynga in the capacity of CEO some time back. After leaving Microsoft, he expressed his delight since he had always admired Zynga. The gaming company was in dire straits and Don...

Yahoo Acquires Xobni for More Than $30M

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Yahoo acquires Xobni on July 3. Yahoo is on its way to acquire. It looks like that Marissa Mayer has though much more on acquisitions as a first step of her job. Yahoo has already bought micro...

FCC to Approve Sprint’s Deals with SoftBank and Clearwire

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Federal Communications Commission chairwoman, Mignon Clyburn sent an issue regarding certain mutual deals between Sprint, SoftBank and Clearwire, to be voted upon. According to Bloomberg, at least...

Nokia Acquires Full Stake in Nokia Siemens Networks for $2.2 Billion

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With a lot of focus and an able leadership, Siemens is selling entire 50% of its stake to Nokia in Nokia Siemens Networks. This network is a joint venture of both Nokia and Siemens which is now fully...

FTC probes Google’s acquisition of Waze

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Now that Google has bought turn-by-turn GPS application, Waze, it is now time for the critics, a.k.a. the Federal Trade Commision or FTC, to do its job of conducting an antitrust investigation on the...

Facebook Security Bug Exposes Info of 6M Users

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A day ago, the Facebook administration announced some bad news. A bug had found its way into the accounts of Facebook users. What that meant was that the personal details of six million users were...

Yahoo Acquires GhostBird Software

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Yahoo buys advanced level iOS photo app maker GhostBird. Yahoo basically acquired GhostBird software for the sheer sake of improving Flickr as described in company's official tweet. There are rumors...